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PREVIEW: TAX CUTS: DEBT: Conversation with colleague Veronique de Rugy of Mercatus Center re: the State and Local Tax deduction as spendthrift and worse. More tonight. 1939 Stock Exchange
At the heart of America's economic future lies a pivotal question: How do we create a more affordable nation without compromising our long-term fiscal health? The Republican National Committee's 2024 platform offers a bold vision, promising to end inflation and make America affordable again through deregulation and energy independence. While it looks good on paper, we each need to read beyond the headlines and ask what hidden consequences might lurk beneath well-intentioned policies? Veronique de Rugy from Reason joins the show to talk through the proposal and talk about the reality of their goals.
Finish this week of news with Boyd Matheson! Boyd dives into the NATO Summit and President Zelensky’s remarks on the National Governors Association meeting. Tom Nichols weighs in on the accusations of the double standard in the media surrounding Biden and Trump. Dive into how we cannot rely on the Supreme Court to solve all of our problems with James Phillips. Veronique de Rugy shares the GOP’s fiscal goals in 2024 and how they would play out in reality. Learn the skills to have crucial conversations with Joseph Grenny and More!
What is the impact of expanding government roles on family policies? This week, Dr. Veronique de Rugy joins host Roger Ream for a critical conversation on economic freedom, including her takes on policy and ideological differences among the left and right. Dr. de Rugy compares their approaches to expanded government involvement in areas such as paid family leave, childcare subsidies, and tax credits. From economic insights involving women in the workforce to the future of Social Security, Dr. de Rugy provides a compelling assessment of federal intervention and challenges popular stances of modern economics.Dr. de Rugy was the 2024 guest speaker for TFAS's annual Lev Dobriansky Lecture on Political Economy. She is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy, the senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Dr. de Rugy was named in Politico Magazine's 2015 Guide to the Top 50 Thinkers, Doers and Visionaries transforming American Politics, and was a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as at Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Dr. Rugy received her master's degree from the Paris Dauphine University and her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. The Liberty + Leadership Podcast is hosted by TFAS president Roger Ream and produced by Podville Media. If you have a comment or question for the show, please email us at podcast@TFAS.org. To support TFAS and its mission, please visit TFAS.org/support.Support the Show.
Join me for Episode 102 of the Let People Prosper Show to hear a deep discussion with the fantastic Dr. Veronique (Vero) de Rugy, the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, who migrated from France to America. We Explore: -How the entrepreneurial spirit contributes to immigration between countries. - What the differences are between national conservatism and classical liberalism. - Which policies would improve the economic and fiscal picture. Like, subscribe, and share the Let People Prosper Show, and visit vanceginn.substack.com and vanceginn.com for more insights from me, my research, and ways to invite me on your show, give a speech, and more.
#MrMarket: Social Security countdown to collapsing unless Congress acts to raise the retirement age and means test recipients. Veronique DeRugy, Mercatus Center. https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/06/24/social-security-reform-is-coming-really-and-will-bring-political-rewards 1938 FDR
Veronique de Rugy, senior fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Economic Health vs. Political Gain
REVIEW:: #Tariffs: Comment by colleague Veronique De Rugy of Mercatus Center re the regulatory burden on American manufacturing that is far more retarding to prosperity and innovation that Chinese over capacity. More later. 1920 Detroit
#MrMarket: The 'most pro-union administration ever." Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus Center https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/05/24/is-the-union-resurgence-real-does-it-matter-for-workers 1940 Chrysler Detroit
12-1215A: The plan that can end all freight trains by 2035, Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/05/01/the-ideological-cocktail-poisoning-american-campuses/ 1882
#MRMARKET: Inflation, taxes and uncontrolled spending. Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus Center https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/04/24/tax-time-myths-and-truths UNDATED MARSEILLES
#MrMarket: Fiscal norms that the US has jettisoned as the debt ges to 100% of the GDP and more than $1 Trillion per annum. Veronique De Rugy Mercatus Center https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/04/24/americas-fiscal-ethos-from-alexander-hamiltons-day-to-our-own 1950 POTUS Truman shaking hands with VPOTUS Barkley Opening Day
#MrMarket: Federal subsidies to revive manufacturing are ineffective welfare for the already prosperous and no solution for the men who have dropped out of the workforce. Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/04/24/washingtons-job-creation-circus-is-hitting-the-road 1936 Garment District NYC
Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center Senior Fellow--inflation calculation changes...apples to apples it's worse than the 1980's.
#MRMARKET: The public perception of suffocating inflation is not wrong & What is to be done? Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/03/24/americans-can-tell-the-difference-between-rosy-economic-data-and-reality 1914Federal ReserveBoard
#MRMARKET: Industrial policy for both the presidential candidates say no to ally Japan's money for US Steel. Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/industrial-policy-and-electoral-politics/ 1908 PITTSBURGH
#MrMarket: Taxes the right way and spending cuts the right way. Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/03/24/a-new-fiscal-commission-must-heed-the-lesson-of-97 1923 Federal Reserve Board
#MRMARKET: The Millennials feel poor and are the richest. Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus Center George Mason University https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/02/24/nostalgia-versus-numbers-challenging-americas-economic-pessimism 1900 Bank Run
#MrMarket: The Child Tax Credit increases but families in poverty also increase & What is to be done? Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/02/24/is-another-child-tax-credit-expansion-really-the-best-way-to-help-families https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/nyregion/nyc-poverty.html 1900 Sirshaft of a "dumbbell" tenement.
#MrMarket: Why the consumers are always right about EVs and cupcakes. Shrinkflation and the Debt. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ignore-consumers-at-your-own-risk/ 1953 Paris
Rachel Dolezal, employed by the Catalina Foothills School District at an elementary school since August 2023, fired for adult content side hustle. Veronica de Rugy of the Mercatus Center mercatus.org. The realities of debt.
Veronique de Rugy is a Mercatus Center Senior Fellow.
#MrMarket: No rate cuts called for with $10 Trillion Treasuries to sell. Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus Center https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/investors-fed-interest-rates-a842073c?st=vbmm47yycgcr51l&reflink=article_copyURL_share 1905
#GOP: #DNC: #Pupulism: The infamous old Republicrats agree with each other. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/01/24/populist-politicians-arent-so-divided-on-economic-issues-and-thats-bad-news 1913 Tariff Reformm: Berryman in the Washington Post
#MrMarket: Three myths, starting with income inequality. Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus Center. https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/01/24/three-economic-myths-to-put-to-rest-this-year 1917 Manhattan
#MrMarket: Copenhagen Consensus and solving the "negative" Moody rating of the US debt. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/11/23/heres-one-way-to-demand-rational-government 1905 Klondike gold
#MrMarket: The beginnings of a responsible debt-reducing commission. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/11/23/congress-can-redeem-itself-by-calling-for-help
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#MrMarket :The Federal debt and "deficit fundamentalists." . Veronique de Rugy Mercatus Center https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/11/23/responsible-government-isnt-just-for-the-tough-times
#MrMarket: Debt that Congress will not speak. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/10/23/americans-learned-a-financial-crisis-lesson-washington-did-not 1930 Brooklyn bread line
Veronique de Rugy is the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a nationally syndicated columnist. The Party's over - The Cult of 'Forever Low' Interest Rates
#MrMarket. Inflation not solved; deficits not solved. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/cpi-report-september-mild-inflation-862679f7?mod=hp_lead_pos1 1867 CANADA
#MrMarket: Student Loan spending $9B equals higher interest rates for longer. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/10/23/good-government-is-a-two-way-street#increaseFont 1930 FDR
#MrMARKET: $33 Trillion Debt and no memory of the 1950s and 60s growth with surplus.. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/can-we-really-grow-out-of-debt/ 1935 FDR
#MrMarket: Bidenomics generated inflation that the Federal Reserve cannot solve aloe. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/09/23/are-ordinary-americans-buying-bidenomics 1940 Canada
#MrMarket: Middle Class disappearing into prosperity. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-middle-class-is-prospering/ 1925
Kevin D. Williamson sits down with Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow Veronique De Rugy to discuss the work she does, jobs she's had, and policy ideas for helping workers and employers get the most out of the work they do. Watch the full interview here.
Photo: 1900. No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #FTC: Policing all mergers & acquisitions with guidelines and regulations. & What is to be done? Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center. https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/08/23/corporate-mergers-are-under-attack-but-not-on-your-behalf
Photo: The Arkansas Traveller. No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #MrMarket: What use "national industrial policy?" Is the Fed done after 11 hikes? Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Centerhttps://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/07/23/why-were-asking-the-wrong-question-about-the-industrial-policy-push
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1900 #MrMarket: The retailers keep the money. Veronique DeRugy, Mercatus Center. https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/07/23/progressives-and-populists-vs-the-credit-card-market
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow Valley Forge 1900 #MrMarket: The inflation battle has years to go to average 2%, and Bidenomics is not helping. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center https://www.wsj.com/articles/consumer-price-index-inflation-jay-powell-federal-reserve-interest-rates-920849c8
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow Verona 1746 #MrMarket: Opera in Verona, riots in France, politics in Iowa. Veronique De Rugy, Mercatus Center. https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/07/23/three-warnings-about-election-season
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1905 Oregon #MrMarket: The Fed is not close to its 2% target. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center .https://www.wsj.com/articles/jerome-powell-set-to-discuss-interest-rates-bank-policy-1c65faa0?mod=hp_lista_pos3
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #MrMarket: Change the deal to no cuts. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center. https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/06/23/what-to-make-of-new-projections-of-big-government-savings
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow #MrMarket: Two years from now another debt talking. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus. https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/06/23/resist-dangerous-political-theater-and-look-to-that-which-is-not-seen
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1890 #DC: The many definitions possible for "Common Good Capitalism,." as proposed in the nation's capital. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/05/23/what-is-common-good-capitalism-and-why-are-some-conservatives-so-enamored
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1914 #MrMarket: Fedspeak takes away while the CFPB gives out free stuff. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center. https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/05/23/junk-fees-are-just-bureaucratic-junk-food
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1935 Broome Street New York City #MrMarket: Cozy and long-standing Industrial Policy in the EU and in the US & What is to be done?.. Veronique de Rugy Mercatus Center https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/a-closer-look-at-aircraft-industrial-policy/
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow French machine Panama Canal 1910 #MrMarket: Congress spending drives the inflation that fights the Fed: Self-sustaining price instability. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center, George Mason University https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/04/23/one-stat-rarely-tells-the-story
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1908 Australia #MrMarket: Swift, short countdown to severe cuts in Social Security and Medicare & What is to be done?. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center https://www.creators.com/read/veronique-de-rugy/04/23/more-entitlement-red-flags-as-politicians-tout-inaction